Hemopexin alleviates sterile inflammation in ischemia-reperfusion-induced lung injury
Frontiers in ImmunologyIntroductionPulmonary ischemia-reperfusion (IR) injury (IRI) plays a significant role in various lung disorders and is a key factor in the development of primary graft dysfunction following lung transplantation.
Tomoyuki Nakagiri +14 more
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Patient considerations in the treatment of COPD: focus on the new combination inhaler umeclidinium/vilanterol. [PDF]
, 2015 Medication adherence among patients with chronic diseases, such as COPD, may be suboptimal, and many factors contribute to this poor adherence. One major factor is the frequency of medication dosing.
Albertson, Timothy E +3 more
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Blood and sputum biomarkers in COPD and asthma: a review [PDF]
, 2016 Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and asthma are lung inflammatory diseases that represent major public health problems. The primary, and often unique, method to evaluate lung function is spirometry, which reflects disease severity rather than
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Quantitative CT analysis in patients with pulmonary emphysema: is lung function influenced by concomitant unspecific pulmonary fibrosis? [PDF]
, 2019 Purpose: Quantitative analysis of CT scans has proven to be a reproducible technique, which might help to understand the pathophysiology of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and combined pulmonary fibrosis and emphysema.
Doellinger, Felix +5 more
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THE MICROBIOTA OF LOWER AIRWAYS IN PATIENTS WITH CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASES
Журнал микробиологии, эпидемиологии и иммунобиологии, 2018 Aim. We aimed to estimate the composition and the detection frequency of bacterial species in induced sputum samples from patients with bronchial asthma (BA), chronic obstructive lung disease (COPD) and its combined phenotype (ACOS).
S. A. Mazurina +6 more
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Pathway reconstruction of airway remodeling in chronic lung diseases: a systems biology approach. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2014 Airway remodeling is a pathophysiologic process at the clinical, cellular, and molecular level relating to chronic obstructive airway diseases such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), asthma and mustard lung.
Ali Najafi +5 more
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Changes in plasma levels of B-type natriuretic peptide with acute exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. [PDF]
, 2014 Background: Elevated plasma B-type natriuretic peptide (BNP) levels and their association with heart failure have been reported in subjects with acute exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (AECOPD).
Hasegawa, Y +5 more
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Respiratory Research, 2023 Background Chronic respiratory diseases are disorders of the airways and other structures of the lung, and include chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), lung cancer, asthma, bronchiectasis, interstitial lung diseases, occupational lung diseases ...
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Deep LF-Net: Semantic Lung Segmentation from Indian Chest Radiographs Including Severely Unhealthy Images [PDF]
arXiv, 2020 A chest radiograph, commonly called chest x-ray (CxR), plays a vital role in the diagnosis of various lung diseases, such as lung cancer, tuberculosis, pneumonia, and many more. Automated segmentation of the lungs is an important step to design a computer-aided diagnostic tool for examination of a CxR.
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Psychophysiology of respiratory disease : clinical considerations for the advanced practice nurse [PDF]
, 2014 The purpose of this article is to describe the psychophysiology of dyspnea in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), identify the unique impact of respiratory disease on the female patient, and discuss the relationship of anxiety and ...
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